e6400 or e6600

[MiranoPoncho]

What, if any benifits other than cache and overclockability, would one gain from getting a 6600 instead of a 6400 or vice versa?

 

[Thor86]

Get whichever is available. :beer:

 

[Sqube]

Umm... as far as I can tell, those are the major benefits.

The E6600 has the 4MB of L2 cache as opposed to the 2MB for the E6400; they both appear to be brilliant overclockers.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

It's obvious, but the e6600 is clocked higher at stock too : )

 

[Ayah]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
It's obvious, but the e6600 is clocked higher at stock too : )

I believe the e6600 has a higher multi and that they both share the same FSB. Could be wrong though.

 

[w00t]

the E6600 has 4MB cache which helps but it's also higher priced look at the new review on anandtech comparing the lower core 2 duo processors

I think the sweetspot in for conroe is the E6600 just because it has 4MB cache and overclocks nicely along with the rest of the core 2 duo processors.